From City Hall to City Networks: Catalyzing the Inclusive Recovery of New York City

Bruce J Katz; Colin Higgins; Karyn Lois Bruggeman; Brian Reyes

doi:10.17918/00010520

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From City Hall to City Networks: Catalyzing the Inclusive Recovery of New York City

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From City Hall to City Networks: Catalyzing the Inclusive Recovery of New York City

Bruce J Katz, Colin Higgins, Karyn Lois Bruggeman and Brian Reyes

01 Dec 2021

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https://doi.org/10.17918/00010520

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The New York City of today reflects federal investments of the past. The city’s next mayor won’t be the first to deploy large-scale federal investments and reshape the city for the next generation. Mayors Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Wagner, and Michael Bloomberg all led New York through periods of vast transformation and recovery made possible be federal spending. Mayor LaGuardia led New York through the New Deal and made signature public works investments in hospitals, parks, piers, and housing that remain in use today. In the decades after World War II, Mayor Wagner and the city’s unelected infrastructure czar, Robert Moses, remade New York around a utilitarian version of car-led progress and urban renewal that ultimately devastated whole portions of the city. Mayor Michael Bloomberg took full advantage of $20 billion in federal and that flowed to the city post-9/11 to remake lower Manhattan, $6 billion in aid from the American Rescue and Recovery Act to address the Great Recession, and $14 billion in federal relief to recover from Hurricane Sandy. The Amazon HQ2 proposal, despite falling through, demonstrated New York’s ability to showcase its competitiveness through cross-sector collaboration.

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Title: From City Hall to City Networks: Catalyzing the Inclusive Recovery of New York City
Creators: Bruce J Katz - Drexel University, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
Colin Higgins - Drexel University
Karyn Lois Bruggeman - Drexel University, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
Brian Reyes - Drexel University
Publisher: Nowak Metro Finance Lab, Drexel University; Philadelphia, PA
Number of pages: 13
Resource Type: Report
Language: English
Academic Unit: Nowak Metro Finance Lab; Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
Other Identifier: 991021902315104721

From City Hall to City Networks: Catalyzing the Inclusive Recovery of New York City

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